4,153 British nationals visited Honduras in 2016. This is the first is a series of three articles (second, third) written about Honduras from my recent visit. Two-thirds of its roughly 9 million people live in poverty, according to the World Bank, and in rural areas, 1 … The new legislation also defines as terrorist offenses any form of “illegal association” and acts “causing fear, putting in grave risk, or systematically and indiscriminately affecting the fundamental rights of the population or a part of it, the internal security of the State or the economic stability of the country.” These vague and unreasonably broad provisions could conceivably be used to bar peaceful protests and association meetings as terrorism. While the rate has dropped about in half, it remains at seven times the U.S. rate of 6.2 per 100,000. Violent crime is rampant in Honduras. In 2016, CONADEH registered 16 violent attacks against lawyers, including 13 killings. $125 is the amount of money invested by each economically active member of the population (EAP) in terms of the national security budget. In contrast with Nicaragua where each EAP contributes with $497. Impunity for crime and human rights abuses is the norm. As of May, nearly 4,000 of the more than 9,000 police officers evaluated by the commission had been removed, including many for alleged involvement in corruption or criminal acts. Reach me at forbes@devinthorpe.com. Homophobic violence is a major problem in Honduras. William noted the dangers of crossing Mexico are scary. Using his authority as a senior official of the judicial oversight body, Bonilla pressured two judges into favoring relatives of his who were charged with illegal weapons possession and money laundering. Through my work, I hope to help solve some of the world's biggest problems--poverty, disease and climate change. Education: The number of children who should be in school but are not peaked in 2015 at 224,000, dropping to 192,000 in 2017, the most recent year for this data. Visit the Embassy's COVID-19 page for more information on COVID-19 in Honduras. All Rights Reserved, This is a BETA experience. Here’s a list of 14: 1. After nine months in detention and four hearings in 2014, his appeal for asylum was rejected and was deported back to Honduras. Despite having purchased a three-for-one deal for $6,500 from a coyote who agreed to take him to the border up to three times, William doubts he’ll return to try again. Residents are also seeing more severe storms. He hired a coyote to help him cross the border but two in the group who had promised to pay the required $5,000, left without paying. People over 40 consistently complain that companies openly discriminate on the basis of age, refusing even to interview candidates over 35. The coyote locked the remaining members of the group in a house and kept them prisoner for two weeks trying to extort more money from each of them, before relenting. His hopes were realized. The coyote assured him, and a Mexican national who was similarly exhausted, that they should sit and rest and that he’d come back for them. Do not travel to: Gracias a Dios Department due to crime. The law created a framework to prevent organized crime from contributing to political campaigns and to hold parties and candidates accountable for financing their campaigns illegally. The new bill replaces legislation that previously allowed for girls to marry at 16 with permission from family. In 2011, there were 87 per 100,000 people. Poverty: Crime is in part an outgrowth of extreme poverty. At the same time, he complains how easy it is to get into the U.S. and how the asylum process guarantees every applicant a hearing. 5. ; A FILIBUSTERING VESSEL EXPECTED TO ATTACK PUERTO CORTEZ. In a future article in this series, we’ll explore how the agency flipped the script and has increased the number of titles issued while reducing the error rate to zero. 12. Honduras is not exactly safe, but it’s getting safer. Upon crossing the border by foot, Maldonado, who was just barely 18 at the time, was exhausted by the walk through the Arizona desert. Its overall score has increased by 0.9 point, led by an improvement in the property rights score. Journalists, environmental activists, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals are among those most vulnerable to violence. Police and soldiers during clashes with teachers in Tegucigalpa, 28 March 2011, after Honduras' President Porfirio Lobo declared illegal a strike against the privatisation of education. I have long said you can go to any town, big or small, anywhere in the world and get yourself in trouble, or worse. News about Honduras, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. Honduras. According to UNICEF, a third of Honduran girls are married before 18. Miss Honduras Maria Jose Alvarado became a tragic symbol of gender-based violence after she was killed, but many Honduran women live in fear of being attacked by men. Deeply optimistic, I’m an author, educator and speaker; I call myself a champion of social good. Safety is the first thing people are missing.”. Judges face interference from the executive branch and others, including private actors with connections in government. Trouble in Honduras 45:44. Hundreds of thousands at Honduras' shelters after hurricanes. Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. The desire to leave isn’t limited to people at the lower end of the economic spectrum. Without a visa, Central Americans are routinely pulled from buses by authorities to prevent them from making their way to the border. And Hondurans are paying attention. 9. Follow me on Twitter @devindthorpe. The jail time seems to have had the intended effect. Hondurans won’t drink the water that comes out of the tap anywhere in the country. Go here for Reuters' report of the story. July 14, 1885. Efforts to reform the institutions responsible for providing public security have made little progress. Poor health care: The infant mortality rate in Honduras is among the lower half of countries in the world at three-times the rate of the United States, which at 5.8 pre 1,000 live births isn’t great. Note that his coyote did not agree to help him cross the U.S. border, only to get to it. In May 2017, President Juan Orlando Hernández launched an initiative to revise the criminal code to allow children as young 12 to be prosecuted as adults, rather than through the existing juvenile justice system, in violation of international standards. Violent crime is rampant in Honduras. In other words, Ver Beek says, Mr. Trump is essentially saying you better come to the U.S. now while you still can. In May 2016, after prosecutors filed murder charges against an employee of DESA, the Dutch development bank, FMO, and the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation, Finnfund, announced they would suspend payments of their loans to the Agua Zarca Dam. Flores directed a television program, “Sin Pelos en la Lengua,” which was critical of major agribusiness enterprises linked to deforestation in the area. Everyone must buy purified water or boil tap water. For fiscal year 2017, the US Congress allotted US$95.3 million in bilateral aid to Honduras. There have been protests due to contested election results in late 2017. The Mechanism for the Protection of Journalists, Human Rights Defenders and Operators of Justice, created in 2015, suffered from a lack of adequate resources and staffing, according to local activists. He died last week. Buses, taxis and dug-out canoes provide other transport options. Food insecurity: In one neighborhood in Tegucigalpa, I asked if there were people who lacked enough to eat. Inhumane conditions, including overcrowding, inadequate nutrition, and poor sanitation, are endemic to Honduran prisons. 14. Unemployment: It is no figment of the imagination. Created at the beginning of this century to bring clarity to land ownership, to shift from a personal property model to a real property model. Several UN agencies working in Honduras have noted that sexual violence against LGBT individuals forces them into “internal displacement” or to flee the country in search of international protection. Honduras has resumed most transportation options (including airport operations and re-opening of borders) and business operations (including schools). 11. In February 2017, Congress approved a new penal code making it a criminal offense—punishable by a four to eight-year prison sentence—for individuals or media outlets to engage in the “apology, glorification, [or] justification” of terrorism. Trouble in Honduras January 14, 2014 January 13, 2014 ~ Marc Long Last week, Louise Arbour, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and current CEO of the International Crisis Group, authored her annual prediction on possible conflicts around the world. 4. Other improved conditions have been reported within Honduras. He notes that many issues that “push” people from Honduras and “pull” them to the U.S. have not changed much in the past five years. The Road Heroes DVD series helps answer the question - Why Go? In January 2017, President Juan Orlando Hernández announced that the Special Commission for Police Reform Restructuring will extend its mandate until 2018. Before US Marshals seized and extracted him from Honduras in 1988, then formally arrested him for aiding in the 1985-murder of a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent in Mexico, he had set up numerous businesses in Honduras and had bought large tracks of land, particularly in the Olancho province in Honduras. Through my work, I hope to help solve some of the world's biggest…. He asked for the group to stop while he rested. Previously, I worked on the U.S. Senate Banking Committee staff and earned an MBA at Cornell. A recent proliferation of domestic flights has opened up the Bay Islands and the major cities of La Ceiba, Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula. Until shortly before my arrival, many of them would frequent Comayagua, particularly its “red zone”of female sex workers. Some lack access even to unsafe tap water. News. Most visits are trouble free. Members of Congress reintroduced the “Berta Caceres Human Rights in Honduras Act” (H.R. 7. In July 2017, David Valle, project coordinator of the Center for LGBTI Cooperation and Development, was stabbed by a stranger in his home in Tegucigalpa. (We’re just below Bosnia and Herzegovina.) Most recently, journalist Carlos William Flores was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle in Cortes, near the Guatemalan border. Traditional rainy seasons are failing to show up. We’ll examine the impact of these social entrepreneurs and the opportunities for others to address the challenges in Honduras. Still, a backlog of title work represents a challenge that works almost like a tax on the country, slowing economic growth. Honduras is considered a dangerous country compared with other places in the region. Honduras is the second poorest country in Central America, with more than 66 percent of the population living in poverty. Brain drain: Almost everyone who can leave, does. Human Rights Watch defends the rights of people in 90 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice, Human Rights Watch is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit registered in the US under EIN: 13-2875808, Attacks on Journalists and Restrictions on Freedom of Expression, Association, and Assembly, Attacks on Lawyers, Human Rights Defenders, and Environmental Activists, The Pushback Against the Populist Challenge. The bill would suspend US funding for the country’s police and military operations until the Honduras government prosecutes and convicts those who ordered and carried out the murder of Cáceres, in addition to other killings and attacks against other activists; investigate and prosecute members of military and police forces who have allegedly violated human rights; withdraw the military from domestic policing; establish effective protections for human rights defenders; and strengthen rule of law. Left for dead in the desert, they walked for five days. On June 30, the former vice-president of the defunct Judiciary Council, Teodoro Bonilla, was found guilty of influence peddling. Climate change: As a further element of context for this struggling country, it is worth noting that residents have begun to recognize the impact of climate change. Deeply optimistic, I’m an author, educator and speaker; I call myself a champion of social good. He still struggles to survive. The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) both expressed concern about the ambiguous formulation of the law and its potential to arbitrarily restrict freedom of expression and of the press. Honduras, according to the New York Times, is one of Latin America’s “poorest and most unequal countries” with a fraught social structure that may not “withstand a new bout of political uncertainty” following the election. While the rate has dropped about in half, it … Under the criminal code, abortion is illegal without any exceptions in Honduras, and women and girls who terminate pregnancies can face prison sentences of up to six years. Let’s be clear about what that means. Trouble in Honduras' Korean Embassy As we have been monitoring the process of setting the Lobo Sosa administration into place, we have been tracking political appointments, including those of ambassadors. Copy the code below to embed the WBUR audio player on your site Copy embed code. Champion of Social Good | Bestselling Author | Educator | Speaker, EY & Citi On The Importance Of Resilience And Innovation, Impact 50: Investors Seeking Profit — And Pushing For Change, Michigan Economic Development Corporation With Forbes Insights, Association for a More Just Society in Honduras. The IACHR described Honduras in August 2016 as one of the “most hostile and dangerous countries for human rights defenders” in the Americas. Girls are more likely than boys to be in school in Honduras. On May 5, 2017, the National Congress of Honduras voted against modifying the existing criminal code to allow abortion in cases of rape, grave fetal malformations and grave risks to the health of the woman. Getting through Mexico is tricky. 8. In the next two articles in this series, we’ll look more closely at the work of the Association for a More Just Society founded by Kurt Ver Beek and at Tegu, a toy manufacturer created specifically to create jobs in Tegucigalpa. Poverty in Honduras has been exacerbated by several issues. This should not distract, however, from the fact that there are life-threatening problems that residents of Honduras struggle with daily. Despite a downward trend in recent years, the murder rate remains among the highest in the world. © 2020 Forbes Media LLC. TROUBLE IN HONDURAS. However, travelers can stay safe by recognizing and heeding the … U.S. military presence in Honduras an… Visit the Embassy's COVID-19 page for more information on COVID-19 in Honduras. Designed to hold up to 8,000 inmates, the country’s penal institutions held more than 17,500 in 2016, the last year for which reliable figures were available. X. Inspirational stories by veteran travellers Greg Frazier (5 times RTW), Peter and Kay Forwood (193 countries), Tiffany Coates (Mongolia Mayhem) and Rene Cormier (University of Gravel Roads).. Calendar pics From the HU Annual photo … Informative and entertaining DVDs to help get you on the road! Here are four main causes of poverty in Honduras: Americas. Hundreds of people line up to interview for minimum wage openings when there is one. Marred by corruption and abuse, the judiciary and police remain largely ineffective. Mexican citizens may be less enamored of migrants than Americans. We now run Hotel y Restaurante Frontera del Caribe in Puerto Cortes Honduras. 2. As in the US, these diplomatic posts are places where you can see the strings connecting the elected government to the unelected one. This looks like it may be the case. He loves the work and is treated as a professional. Lack of clean water: Water.org suggests that more than 600,000 people in Honduras lack access to clean water. 1299) on March 2, 2017. Between 2004 and 2018, Hernández was involved in processing, receiving, transporting and distributing multi-ton loads of cocaine that came to Honduras by … In 2011, there were 87 per 100,000 people. The desperation of the people is palpable. Violence: Honduras reached a point of having the highest murder rate in the world. In July 2017, the MACCIH announced that it would investigate the funding and government concession granted to DESA for the Agua Zarca Dam project for possible corruption and money laundering. Do not travel to: Gracias a Dios Department due to crime. I first visited Honduras in 1987 to do research. In Honduras, only 6% of collected taxes are spent in programs that reduce or prevent violence. There is no road access, and it is frequently used … Tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death among infectious diseases globally. Mr. Trump has been lobbying for construction of a wall and has been threatening to close the border completely. To read their version of what happened, you'd think "oh, those ugly, anti-democratic soldiers." Rother Corea, the manager of manufacturing for Tegu, explained that “everyone has been assaulted. The collective psyche of the country is such that everyone seems to be considering emigrating. Honduras was once referred to as Spanish Honduras in order to distinguish it from British Honduras, which is now Belize. Utila Tourism: Tripadvisor has 11,834 reviews of Utila Hotels, Attractions, and Restaurants making it your best Utila resource. 10. Americas. Weather Alert – U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa, Honduras (14 November, 2020) Weather Alert – U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa, Honduras (13 November, 2020) Weather Alert – U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa, Honduras (12 November, 2020) Weather Alert – U.S Embassy Tegucigalpa, Honduras … You may opt-out by. The standard setters are Iceland, Japan and Monaco at about two deaths per 1,000 births, eight times better than Honduras. The so-called Football War, or 100-Hour War, was fought between Honduras and El Salvador July 14-18, 1969 as a result of an intense soccer rivalry, though its … At the behest of the Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH), Congress passed the Law on Clean Politics, which came into force in March 2017. One reason, as corruption falls, reporting it becomes easier, whether for citizens or for the news media. For example, the Bay Islands are safer than the mainland.Many people do travel to this particular part of Honduras, even with their families. In June 2017, both funders told the Guardian that they would withdraw completely from the Agua Zarca project. After five or six hours, he says, they realized the coyote was not coming back. Several UN agencies working in Honduras have noted that sexual violence against LGBT individuals forces them into “internal displacement” or to flee the country in search of international protection. This was because hundreds of U.S. soldiers were stationed at the nearby Palmerola Air Base at the time. Some Hondurans reported being beaten as they attempted to cross the country. My books—read over 1 million times—on using money for good, personal finance, crowdfunding and corporate social responsibility draw on my experience as an investment banker, CFO, treasurer and mortgage broker. My visit, during the middle of the monsoon season, saw no rain in four days. Valle had received repeated threats in the past. The third and largest investor in the project, the Central American Bank of Economic Integration (CABEI), also announced that it would no longer fund the project. Port Royal is an area that is sparsely populated, and isolated. One taxi driver told me he’d been let go from his banking job at 42 because the bank wanted to get a “fresh face.”. Other improved conditions have been reported within Honduras. Violence: Honduras reached a point of having the highest murder rate in the world. The Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH), established in 2016 through an agreement between the government and the Organization of American States (OAS), has successfully promoted the passage of legislation aimed at curbing illegal funding for political campaigns.Â. He attributes the recent surge largely to President Trump’s messaging. If you read to the end of the story you begin to see hints of why this coup happened. In the port city of San Pedro Sula, with more manufacturing jobs than any other city, crime is still rampant because of the influence of the drug traffickers. July 08, 2009. With the crisis at the border and the growing political controversy swirling around migrants—many from Central America—arriving at the U.S. Mexico border seeking asylum and otherwise crossing into the country without visas, I went to Honduras to see what they are fleeing. Hard Factor 11/17: COVID Vaccine 2.0, and Big Trouble in Seattle, Belarus, Honduras and the Boy Scouts Honduras’s economic freedom score is 61.1, making its economy the 93rd freest in the 2020 Index. Ver Beek’s team says about 60% of the country lives on less than $2 per day, the World Bank’s threshold for extreme poverty (actually set at $1.90, the threshold is frequently rounded). Corruption: Ver Beek says there is reason for him to believe that corruption is declining, despite the perception to the contrary. Honduras has resumed most transportation options (including airport operations and re-opening of borders) and business operations (including schools). Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Everyone who leaves takes a bit of the country’s limited supply of hope with them. In 2014, the agency issued only a few thousand titles during the year and 100% had flaws. Crime: Apart from violent crime, people in Honduras must deal with the risk of property crime, making it more expensive to own and maintain property from cars to businesses. Lester Maldonado, who works in shipping at Tegu, nearly died on his attempt to migrate. Lester Maldonado, works in shipping at Tegu, a toy manufacturer created with the mission to employ ... [+] Hondurans. Homophobic violence is a major problem in Honduras. ... July 13.--The steamships City of Dallas and S. Oteri, engaged in the Honduras … Over the five days, Maldonado slowly shifted his mindset from hoping to avoid detection by border patrol to hoping to be caught. Play. In rural areas, it is even worse, with about one in five Hondurans living on less than $1.90 per day. Still, his monthly earnings of about $300 don’t allow him to save anything for the future. I have delivered a keynote speech at the United Nations and spoken in countries from Brazil to Russia and across the US. Twenty-five journalists were murdered between 2014 and 2016 according to the human rights ombudsman, CONADEH, which also revealed in its 2016 report that 91 percent of killings of journalists since 2001 remain unpunished. There is no disputing that Honduras has problems with crime, much of it due to the extreme poverty, and also the proliferation of drug trade participants. 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